Danger Planet!

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Oahhh... oaaahaha.. almost!

Here's a crowd test. There's over 1400 characters in this scene and it renders fairly quickly. The composition of this shot turned out really great.

Plants

Palace

Working on the look for palace. Came together in a day.

Dedicated Farm

In addition to utilizing most of the lab computers, we've added a dedicated render farm. 168 hyperthreaded cores and 336GB of ram. It's already having a huge impact on the images we're making.

So when the entire system (farm+lab stations) is maxed out, we can run 138 frames simultaneously, each with a memory cap of 8gb. If we had less demanding memory requirements, we could split and double or quadruple the concurrent load. So that's 138 times faster than a single machine.

Giant

Help yourself

Pluggin Away

Converted the shaders for the elephant and cheerleader today. As far as major characters, just the other two ladies left.

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